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Forth day – Evening

By Esther Polak | Published: April 11, 2010
On my way back to Schiphol airport, I downloaded my GPS hiking data and made marks on my reading spots.
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Forth day – Morning

By Esther Polak | Published: April 11, 2010
First I spend my morning packing and going over the “Crisis in Darfur” project in Google Earth. The hotel, maybe this is even the reason why we are hosted here, provides for a perfect Internet connection so that works fine.  When done there is still time for a walk and some last field reading. So ... [Read More]
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Third day – Evening

By Esther Polak | Published: April 10, 2010
The train to Edal takes 15 minutes, but my hike from there lasts for 7 hours. Partly because I stop several time to read this article by Lisa Parks: Digging into Google Earth: an analysis of “Crisis in Darfur”.  It is a very critical analysis of one of the most well known “geo story telling” ... [Read More]
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Third day – Snow

By Esther Polak | Published: April 10, 2010
Found snow. I was planning to not post details about my hiking but for this I need to make exception
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Third day – Morning

By Esther Polak | Published: April 10, 2010
Ivar just send me the announcement that the new pages on our latest print making sessions of NomadicMILK project are on-line. Wow! I really like how we managed to make the sets of prints and that we actually came up with smth people can buy. The digital becomes object. Art Object even. This is of course ... [Read More]
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Second day – Lunch

By Esther Polak | Published: April 9, 2010
During my lunch stop I did read the Aether introduction by Tristan Thielmann. It did not solve my problems with the Elmer article, but I instantly become a fan of this article. When I started working with GPS in 2002 I had no clue that this medium would be part of something now revered to ... [Read More]
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Second day – Morning

By Esther Polak | Published: April 9, 2010
Finished reading the second article from Aether on my list by Greg Elmer Locative Networking: Finding and Being Found before falling asleep yesterday still. The argument (as I understand it) is that locative media studies should broaden its focus from a techno fetish device based one, to a more broad perspective: the way location plays a ... [Read More]
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First day

By Esther Polak | Published: April 8, 2010
I hate packing. Sometimes I hate it so much I start hating traveling. Anyway. I arrived. Hathersage. The plan is to read those five articles I printed and put in my suitcase.  The second plan is to write short but intelligent enough comments on those articles in this blog. Try that and a lot of hiking I ... [Read More]
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